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1. Radio Drama for Speaking Practice

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Find ideas for having students create and perform original radio dramas in the classroom; the article includes tips for helping students read with emotion, use sound effects, and work collaboratively.

2. Developing Reading Fluency by Combining Timed Reading and Repeated Reading

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article describes an innovative way to combine two familiar techniques (timed reading and repeated reading) to produce a new technique that can support the development of reading fluency.

3. Community Map Puzzle

   In: English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   The article describes a fun, collaborative way for learners to practice prepositions of location and vocabulary related to places in a community. Two examples are provided, with suggestions for generating more.

4. Activities to Activate and Maintain a Communicative Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   The author presents detailed descriptions of four highly communicative activities and offers options for each and criteria for evaluating these and other activities.

5. Story Retelling with a Twist

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This is a step-by-step guide to carrying out a versatile, well-scaffolded activity that can improve learners’ speaking skills and keep them engaged through the use of stories and jokes with surprising and unexpected endings.

6. Let's Talk about It: Strategies for Integrating Writing and Speaking in the Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The authors describe a number of strategies for integrating speaking into writing-focused classes, with the goal of increasing students’ competence in both language skills.

7. Using “Place Mats” as a Prewriting Activity for Opinionated Essays

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Here’s a way to get students talking while at the same time preparing them to write opinionated essays: using “place mats” as a starting point for expressing, sharing, and supporting opinions.

8. Online Breakout Rooms: Jigsaw Discussions and Presentation Practice

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This is a step-by-step guide to helping students use online breakout rooms to work in groups to become “experts” in a topic, then share their knowledge with other students in a jigsaw format, as a way to interact and prepare to give more formal presentations.

9. Using Story Retelling Wheels with Young Learners

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   The author describes how to use “story retelling wheels” as scaffolding devices to support young learners as they develop the important skill of being able to retell stories that they have heard and comprehended.

10. Developing Discussion and Tutorial Leadership Skills in EFL Learners

    In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 3 Format(s): Text

    The author explains how to use student-led tutorials to develop learners’ presentation, discussion, and listening skills creatively; among other benefits, the tutorials can increase all students’ social-discourse skills as they manage small-group discussions about topics of their own choosing.

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